The Family Cupboard (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1915-10-11
Director: Frank Hall Crane
Writers: Frank Hall Crane , Owen Davis
Language: None | English
Stars: Holbrook Blinn , Clinton Preston , Frances Nelson , Johnny Hines , Grace Henderson , Jessie Lewis , Estelle Mardo , Stanhope Wheatcroft
Runtime: 50 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Family Cupboard (United States of America) , The Family Cupboard
Plot: Charles Nelson is a self-made man and has amassed a fortune. His family consists of his wife, son Kenneth, and daughter Alice. His wife has become absorbed in society, requiring all the money her husband can made to support the large establishment and entertain. The wife, son and daughter are out night after night, leaving Mr. Nelson much alone; while he pays the bills, he has little of the society of his family. He turns to Kitty Claire, a vaudeville performer, for consolation and companionship. His son Kenneth gets into an argument with a friend at his club and hears that his father is keeping a woman in an establishment uptown. Kenneth returns home, under the influence of liquor and insults his mother's companion, Mary Burke. Mr. Nelson enters, sees the situation and asks him what it all means. Kenneth turns on him and tells him that everyone knows he is keeping a woman in an apartment uptown. This conversation is overheard by Mrs. Nelson, who asks Mr. Nelson if it is true. He replies, "Yes." They agree to part. Kenneth clings to his mother. Alice, the daughter, sympathizes with her father. She realizes that it is their own fault; they have given him nothing in return for all his labor in their behalf. Mr. Nelson is now living at the Alpine apartments, to which comes Kitty Claire. He tells her the end has come. Meanwhile Kenneth, the son, has come to see his father. Kitty, going out, hears him ask if his father is in, and seeks an acquaintance with Kenneth, who becomes infatuated with her and moves to the same hotel. Then Kenneth begins to live a Bohemian life with Kitty Claire and Dick LeRoy, another vaudeville performer. He finally asks Kitty to become his wife. She replies, "It is impossible, there was another man." The boy, crushed and brokenhearted, demands the name of the man. Mr. Nelson enters at the point when Kenneth demands the name of the man. Kitty points to Mr. Nelson. Humiliated and ashamed Kenneth decides to end his life. He is about to write a letter when his mother arrives, she sees the pistol and tries to keep him from carrying out his plan. They are interrupted by a knock at the door; Kenneth is called down to the office by the clerk; while he is gone Mrs. Nelson seizes the opportunity to telephone to Mr. Nelson. He arrives, with Alice, the sister. Kenneth and his father are reconciled, also Mrs. Nelson, and her husband and the family are reunited.
IMDB:tt0005300